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- Condition
- Book Title
- Curiosity
- Publication Name
- Curiosity
- Title
- Curiosity
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0771084188
- EAN
- 9780771084188
- ISBN
- 9780771084188
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Date
- 01/02/2011
- Release Year
- 2011
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- CA
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Weight
- 14.2 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Topic
- Contemporary Women, General, Romance / Historical / Victorian, Historical
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Number of Pages
- 410 Pages
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Award-winning novelist Joan Thomas blends fact and fiction, passion and science in this stunning novel set in 19th-century Lyme Regis, England -- the seaside town that is the setting of both The French Lieutenant's Woman and Jane Austen's Persuasion . More than 40 years before the publication of The Origin of Species , 12-year-old Mary Anning, a cabinet-maker's daughter, found the first intact skeleton of a prehistoric dolphin-like creature, and spent a year chipping it from the soft cliffs near Lyme Regis. This was only the first of many important discoveries made by this incredible woman, perhaps the most important paleontologist of her day. Henry de la Beche was the son of a gentry family, owners of a slave-worked estate in Jamaica where he spent his childhood. As an adolescent back in England, he ran away from military college, and soon found himself living with his elegant, cynical mother in Lyme Regis, where he pursued his passion for drawing and painting the landscapes and fossils of the area. One morning on an expedition to see an extraordinary discovery -- a giant fossil -- he meets a young woman unlike anyone he has ever met...
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Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
ISBN-10
0771084188
ISBN-13
9780771084188
eBay Product ID (ePID)
110879844
Product Key Features
Book Title
Curiosity
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Contemporary Women, General, Romance / Historical / Victorian, Historical
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
410 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
14.2 Oz
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"Meticulous and deeply affecting. The traps of poverty and class, calcified notions of women's place in science and society, fall away to reveal the hidden life below: the human mind and heart excavated with delicate and devastating skill." - Marina Endicott, author ofGood to a Fault "Curiosityis a delight. Set with marvels and rueful comedy, it's a warmly intelligent feat of historical sympathy. Mary Anning of Lyme Regis, with her dead-reckoning gaze, moves through these pages like a muddy-booted angel." - Greg Hollingshead, author ofBedlam "Rich. . . . [Thomas] practically burrows into the characters. Hers is magnificent prose that appeals to all the senses without grandiloquence. Equally important, Thomas handles the doctrinal debate raised by the then-budding field of geology with [great] subtlety and nuance." - The Toronto Star "Right from its powerful opening, the novel buffets readers with the inescapable momentum of waves against the Dorset cliffs. . . .Curiosityis without question the best novel this reader has come across in the past year. . . . Lush. . . . Thomas draws [her] characters with such depth, power, and heart tha they remain with the reader long after the novel's covers are closed." - Quill & Quire[starred review] "Thomas handles beautifully the class-afflicted nuances of a doomed love story." - Moremagazine, "Meticulous and deeply affecting. The traps of poverty and class, calcified notions of women’s place in science and society, fall away to reveal the hidden life below: the human mind and heart excavated with delicate and devastating skill." - Marina Endicott, author of Good to a Fault " Curiosity is a delight. Set with marvels and rueful comedy, it's a warmly intelligent feat of historical sympathy. Mary Anning of Lyme Regis, with her dead-reckoning gaze, moves through these pages like a muddy-booted angel." - Greg Hollingshead, author of Bedlam "Rich. . . . [Thomas] practically burrows into the characters. Hers is magnificent prose that appeals to all the senses without grandiloquence. Equally important, Thomas handles the doctrinal debate raised by the then-budding field of geology with [great] subtlety and nuance." - The Toronto Star "Right from its powerful opening, the novel buffets readers with the inescapable momentum of waves against the Dorset cliffs. . . . Curiosity is without question the best novel this reader has come across in the past year. . . . Lush. . . . Thomas draws [her] characters with such depth, power, and heart tha they remain with the reader long after the novel’s covers are closed." - Quill & Quire [starred review] "Thomas handles beautifully the class-afflicted nuances of a doomed love story." - More magazine "A brilliant, soulful, multi-layered novel. . . . We are drenched in all the sights, sounds and smells of the era [and] become privy to the ecstasy and the agony of the doomed love affair between the two main characters. . . . Lush prose, compelling narrative and vivid characters [make] this one of the best books of the spring publishing season." - Ottawa Citizen "A precise reconstruction of the social and intellectual world of early 19th-century England. . . .[Thomas’s] research gives the characters depth [and] provides Mary with a delightfully distinctive voice. . . . A beautifully wrought . . . work of literary art." - Winnipeg Free Press "Extraordinary. . . . A timeless story, and an unforgettable one." - Edmonton Journal "Gripping. . . . Mary Anning as portrayed by Joan Thomas stands in her own right as a memorable figure, vulnerable and indomitable at the same time." - National Post "[ Curiosity ] explores the exquisite fragility of a love story that turns upon the lovers’ unblinking curiosity before the metaphysical change their work uncovers. . . . A beautiful, erudite, and deeply pleasurable work." - The Walrus, "Meticulous and deeply affecting. The traps of poverty and class, calcified notions of women's place in science and society, fall away to reveal the hidden life below: the human mind and heart excavated with delicate and devastating skill." -- Marina Endicott, author of Good to a Fault " Curiosity is a delight. Set with marvels and rueful comedy, it's a warmly intelligent feat of historical sympathy. Mary Anning of Lyme Regis, with her dead-reckoning gaze, moves through these pages like a muddy-booted angel." -- Greg Hollingshead, author of Bedlam "Rich. . . . [Thomas] practically burrows into the characters. Hers is magnificent prose that appeals to all the senses without grandiloquence. Equally important, Thomas handles the doctrinal debate raised by the then-budding field of geology with [great] subtlety and nuance." -- The Toronto Star "Right from its powerful opening, the novel buffets readers with the inescapable momentum of waves against the Dorset cliffs. . . . Curiosity is without question the best novel this reader has come across in the past year. . . . Lush. . . . Thomas draws [her] characters with such depth, power, and heart tha they remain with the reader long after the novel's covers are closed." -- Quill & Quire [starred review] "Thomas handles beautifully the class-afflicted nuances of a doomed love story." -- More magazine "A brilliant, soulful, multi-layered novel. . . . We are drenched in all the sights, sounds and smells of the era [and] become privy to the ecstasy and the agony of the doomed love affair between the two main characters. . . . Lush prose, compelling narrative and vivid characters [make] this one of the best books of the spring publishing season." -- Ottawa Citizen "A precise reconstruction of the social and intellectual world of early 19th-century England. . . .[Thomas's] research gives the characters depth [and] provides Mary with a delightfully distinctive voice. . . . A beautifully wrought . . . work of literary art." -- Winnipeg Free Press "Extraordinary. . . . A timeless story, and an unforgettable one." -- Edmonton Journal "Gripping. . . . Mary Anning as portrayed by Joan Thomas stands in her own right as a memorable figure, vulnerable and indomitable at the same time." -- National Post "[ Curiosity ] explores the exquisite fragility of a love story that turns upon the lovers' unblinking curiosity before the metaphysical change their work uncovers. . . . A beautiful, erudite, and deeply pleasurable work." -- The Walrus, "Meticulous and deeply affecting. The traps of poverty and class, calcified notions of women's place in science and society, fall away to reveal the hidden life below: the human mind and heart excavated with delicate and devastating skill." - Marina Endicott, author of Good to a Fault " Curiosity is a delight. Set with marvels and rueful comedy, it's a warmly intelligent feat of historical sympathy. Mary Anning of Lyme Regis, with her dead-reckoning gaze, moves through these pages like a muddy-booted angel." - Greg Hollingshead, author of Bedlam "Rich. . . . [Thomas] practically burrows into the characters. Hers is magnificent prose that appeals to all the senses without grandiloquence. Equally important, Thomas handles the doctrinal debate raised by the then-budding field of geology with [great] subtlety and nuance." - The Toronto Star "Right from its powerful opening, the novel buffets readers with the inescapable momentum of waves against the Dorset cliffs. . . . Curiosity is without question the best novel this reader has come across in the past year. . . . Lush. . . . Thomas draws [her] characters with such depth, power, and heart tha they remain with the reader long after the novel's covers are closed." - Quill & Quire [starred review] "Thomas handles beautifully the class-afflicted nuances of a doomed love story." - More magazine "A brilliant, soulful, multi-layered novel. . . . We are drenched in all the sights, sounds and smells of the era [and] become privy to the ecstasy and the agony of the doomed love affair between the two main characters. . . . Lush prose, compelling narrative and vivid characters [make] this one of the best books of the spring publishing season." - Ottawa Citizen "A precise reconstruction of the social and intellectual world of early 19th-century England. . . .[Thomas's] research gives the characters depth [and] provides Mary with a delightfully distinctive voice. . . . A beautifully wrought . . . work of literary art." - Winnipeg Free Press "Extraordinary. . . . A timeless story, and an unforgettable one." - Edmonton Journal "Gripping. . . . Mary Anning as portrayed by Joan Thomas stands in her own right as a memorable figure, vulnerable and indomitable at the same time." - National Post "[ Curiosity ] explores the exquisite fragility of a love story that turns upon the lovers' unblinking curiosity before the metaphysical change their work uncovers. . . . A beautiful, erudite, and deeply pleasurable work." - The Walrus From the Hardcover edition.
Copyright Date
2011
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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